Kazushige Ugaki

Kazushige Ugaki (9 August 1868-30 April 1956) was Governor-General of Japanese Korea from April to October 1927, succeeding Makoto Saito and preceding Hanzo Yamanashi, and from June 1931 to August 1936, succeeding Makoto Saito and preceding Jiro Minami. He also served as Army Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Colonial Affairs on other occasions.

Biography
Kazushige Ugaki was born on 9 August 1868 in Okayama, Bizen Province, Japan. Ugaki graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1891 and served as Commandant of the Army Staff College and military attache to the German Empire on a few occasions. Ugaki served as Governor-General of Japanese Korea from April to October 1927, and he was promoted to full General in 1929. In 1931, he retired from the army after the March Incident uprising - which sought to make Ugaki the new Prime Minister - was quelled. Ugaki served as Governor-General of Korea once more, and under Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe's government he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After World War II, he was imprisoned war crimes, but he was released without charge. He died in 1956.